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Monday, March 19, 2007

YOU'RE UNDER ARREST MR. PRIME MINISTER

As many of you know the Oread Daily considers global warming to be probably THE issue which overrides all other issues. In Canada today, Greenpeace activists took on Prime Minister Stephen Harper for what they refer to as his "climate crimes."

Five Greenpeace activists were arrested this morning following an almost three-hour-long peaceful protest at the Prime Minister's official residence. They were were protesting Harper's refusal to honour Canada's legally binding global commitments on climate change under the Kyoto Protocol (which really isn't asking a hell of a lot).

"It is urgent that Mr. Harper keep Canada's legal commitment to the worldto fight global warming as part of Kyoto," said Dave Martin, GreenpeaceCanada's energy coordinator. "Global warming's impact on people and oureconomy will be catastrophic. Canada is legally bound to act. Greenpeaceactivists were arrested, but the real crime is the failure to fight globalwarming."

Prime Minister Harper once called the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Canada Liberal Party.

The letter, posted on the federal Liberal party website, was apparently written by Harper in 2002, when he was leader of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance party.

He was writing to party supporters, asking for money as he prepared to fight then-prime minister Jean Chrétien on the proposed Kyoto accord.

He writes that it's based on "tentative and contradictory scientific evidence" and it focuses on carbon dioxide, which is "essential to life."

God save us all from climate deniers like this.

The following comes from Greenpeace Canada.

Greenpeace targets Harper for climate crimes

Ottawa, Canada — Before the federal budget was presented to Parliament, Greenpeace activists today put Prime Minister Stephen Harper under house arrest for climate crimes. Early this morning, Greenpeace activists padlocked themselves to the gates of 24 Sussex Drive, preventing the Prime Minister from going to work to undermine the Kyoto Protocol. Banners branded Harper a “climate criminal”.

“The refusal of the Harper government to honour Kyoto violates Canada’s commitment to the world, and is a crime against the planet,” charged Dave Martin, Greenpeace Canada Energy Coordinator. “By abandoning Kyoto, the Harper government is undermining international efforts to curtail emissions, and exposing millions of people to the dangerous impacts of climate change.”

Prime Minister Harper has falsely called Kyoto unachievable, claiming we don’t have the technology to meet Kyoto targets. However, a recent report by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council entitled Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook, shows that global greenhouse gas emissions can be cut in half by 2050, while providing a secure energy supply and maintaining economic development.

“Canada already has the green energy technology to build a carbon-free future – we are only lacking political will,” said Martin. “Prime Minister Harper is representing the interests of the tar sands, not the Canadian people.”

The government’s claim that meeting our Kyoto target will cause economic hardship is also false. Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern has said the climate change can be mitigated by spending only one per cent of global Gross Domestic Product per year. Failure to act will cost 20 times more.

“A green economy is a prosperous economy. Acting on global warming will put people to work. Delay will have huge economic and environmental costs,” Martin added.

To prevent dangerous climate change, Greenpeace has called on the Harper government to start by meeting it Kyoto commitment — a 6 per cent reduction from 1990 levels by 2012. Canada and other industrial nations must then achieve even deeper emissions reductions from 1990 levels — 30 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

I have a viable design for a sustainable alternate energy production and fuel production plant and infrastructure, for the whole of Canada, and the world, for free.

If enough of us worked on this, we would not be dependent on oil, or the way the world economy works, our economy in Canada would be totally restructured. Not symbiotic with the Global Economy, separate from it, but still interacting with it.

The way the Global Economy is going obviously is not working, and will not work. And the whole world is almost at war because of a few old men.

Let us Canadians stand up, deny the false dollars that the government borrows from the Federal Reserve and the World Bank, declare their notes as frauds as a whole populace. Let us take back control of our country, stop the oil sands in Alberta, and work on this alternative energy idea, I tell you it works.

It will give people in the auto sector that lost their jobs, a chance at transferring their skills, as well as many other ex employees of other industries. Obviously the power plant isn't the only idea, but it is the beginning, needed in order to build the infrastructure to carry the energy and resource, on top of freighting all other resources.

This will create jobs, and if we dismiss the economy we have now and restructure a new economy based on a no debt system (whatsoever!), such as the Green Back that Abraham Lincoln proposed and was most likely assassinated for. Harper is not for the people, he is not for the environment, he is not for the poor, he is not for the hungry, he is not for the sick, and he is not for you. He is NOT for CANADA, and neither are any of the parties as far as I am concerned, they all say we need to give up our sovereignty as Canadians in order to adapt to the Global Economy, which by the way is driven by death and war. I won't vote for any of them. Time for a radical change guys and gals.